@ByRakeshSimha Great! He will be received by them with pleasure. No passport, no skin color discrimination, nothing but anarchy and constant W@R. Good bye to his paradiZe.
@KanwalSibal It takes them almost eight decades to realize this truth! A country founded on the principle of theology and claiming to be 💯 % PURE witnessing those principles melting down in oblivion. Economic stress makes you drink drain water! Long live Indus Valley Civilization!
Women in Afghanistan have officially lost all their rights:
- They no longer have the right to attend school after the 6th grade.
- They cannot leave their home without being accompanied by a male family member.
- They are forbidden from speaking in public, and it is now illegal for their voice to be heard by other women.
- They cannot receive medical care without the presence of a male guardian.
- Ban on entering certain parks, gyms, and leisure venues.
- Restrictions on long-distance travel without a male escort.
- Massive reduction in the presence of women in media and television.
- Some female journalists and presenters have been forced to cover their faces on screen.
- Women's protests heavily repressed in several cities.
- Reinforced segregation between men and women in many public spaces.
- Increased difficulty in obtaining certain jobs, starting a business, or participating in political life.
- Some schools or professional training programs reserved for women have been closed.
- Restrictions on music, artistic, and cultural activities involving women.
- Heightened controls on social media and the public expression of Afghan women.
Nice to be a woman over there in 2026... And the list is still very long!
@Dear_Men_Life@sabakaul1 The problem is it took you long time to comprehend that identity and belief are different from each other. Now you think of claiming IVC. Di you really think you are going to stay with this decision? Don’t hurry. IVC was there, is there and will be there- with you or without you!
For four thousand years, the Indian subcontinent was the centre of world trade. Sumerian tablets record Indian ships reaching Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC. Rome ran a permanent trade deficit with India. By 1600, Surat was the richest port on earth.
Then, within a single lifetime, India lost its maritime supremacy almost entirely.
The conventional explanation is that Europe arrived with superior ships and weapons. It is a comforting story and it is largely wrong. The deeper cause was internal.
Indian commerce was extraordinarily sophisticated. Surat's leading merchant, the Jain financier Virji Vora, was reputedly the richest man in the world; the East India Company borrowed from him. Merchants of every religion and origin traded together because the system rested on two foundations: religious toleration, established by Akbar, and predictable, low-tariffs. Customs duties were around five per cent. Contracts were honoured. Trust was the real currency.
There was one structural weakness. In Venice, Amsterdam and London, the state and the merchant class shared an interest in trade and invested in it together. In Mughal India, the ruling elite was indifferent to commerce. Merchants financed the state; the state never encouraged merchants.
When Aurangzeb became hostile, merchants had no protection. Religious toleration was abandoned. Temples were destroyed, punitive taxes on non-Muslims reimposed, the Sikh Guru executed. Forty years of war followed. East India Company imports from India fell ninety per cent in seven years. Eight thousand merchants abandoned Surat in a single exodus.
They relocated, many of them to an insignificant island Britain had received as a royal wedding dowry, because it offered the security and toleration the Mughal state had destroyed. It also offered English Common Law. Within a generation Bombay was the commercial capital of India. The Wadia family built the Royal Navy's finest ships there. The Tata dynasty traces its origins to this migration.
Europe did not defeat Indian commerce. It inherited it, by providing the conditions Indian merchants needed and their own rulers had thrown away.
This is not an argument about colonialism. It is an argument about something more fundamental, and it is the thread running through all three of my books on maritime trade. The second ‘The Millennium Maritime Trade Revolution’ is subtitled ‘How Asia Lost Maritime Supremacy.’ It is hardly ever lost to a stronger rival but when a society stops valuing the openness, toleration and commercial purpose that made it great. Portugal did it. The Dutch Republic did it. Britain, in the 20th century, did it too.
The conditions of prosperity are always a choice. And they can be unmade by a single generation that comes to value something else more.
Link to the full Substack essay with sources is below.
@lolflix_ May be you are right in your assumption but who’s listening? You better start creating something that others feel envious of you. There is branding, copyright, patent registration like tools in the market to be used. Nothing is safe enough as to not to get exploited.